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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

The Chicago Netrs is cackling over the
Lays of Lonely Bards." A man of sense
would prefer the lays of good healthy, in
dustrious hen
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

The "Toothpick lunch card" is nov
city. Japenese toothpicks are tied up in
bundle which makes perfect miniature
umbrella, and are fastened ON a ragged
edged card on which 10 printed IN the
quaintest possible types; ssAnd now I win
fetch You . toothpick from the further
most wilds Of Asia.n Tha qnotationsi q
from .sMuch Ado About Nothing. ~
Pioneer PreaA
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

A Bellecenter correspondent of the
Bellefontaine Examiner brings out Mr..
John FL. Thomas as the democratic guber-
material candidate.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

Mrs. Logan will make her first contribu-
tisn to magazine pages in the Chautdlqitdn
for February. The subject is ''0fficial Eli
quette in Washington. ."-Erchdnge.
.s0ficial Etiquette in Washington" would
seem to be topic too light, not TO say too
gay, flor etiquette is but little else than the
gayety of fashion, for discussion in pub
lie way By one sustaining so recently as
Mrs. Logan has a loss SO sad and heavy
Bellefontaine Examiner.
Had this article been written since the
death of the senator its criticism would
have been just: but ii was written before
the senator was taken sick and had passed
through the press, we believe, before he
died
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04
The conservative Columbus Dispatch

The conservative Columbus Dispatch
says:
Mr. Washburn's township local option
bill. the best of its kind presented In the
legislature, is sill i'm the hands of the house
committee on temperance, of which Rev.
B. W. Arnett is chairman. 1t is understood
that this bill will not be reported to the
house by the committee. Is this true? Why
y not the bill to be reported? There is
i)ut one interference-cowardice In politics.
There should be no kind of cowardice In
the republican party. 1t is q party of
principle and convictions, and its represen-
tatiyes should have the courage Of their
convictions II local option is right In VII
iages WHY Is II not in t0wnshipss
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

:, Nature is a-rag .msrchans, who works
up every shred and sort and end int new
creations. ns.-Emerson. 49, ~---,- -
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

lsAPu.ro ED = nLs. ..-.s -. ss...'
aita or ptnk, for 81 80. To many points bo.
. for 75.. Fry your druggist hrst.) Boxe
.eeure from observations. s.-CHANpLIS MfG
o., li5 Fulton st, n. Y.
p S,-MentiOn this paper.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04
aoHERNoR FoR4KER.

1t is understood from trustworthy sources
that Governor Foraker is not candidate
for a denomination: that he neither seeks
nor desires II, but prefers to return 10 lhe
practice of his profession-the law-af Gin
cinnati. This is very proper position for
the governor to take--the only position be
ought to take, as public official, for II In
his administration of the affairs OF the
state he has been honest, faithful and EN-
cient, the people of Ohio ought, by TINS
time. to know it; and on the other hand II
NAV be said that, If his course as good
and capable governor, and representative
of republican principles, has been such as
To make him strong candidate for renom-
nation, the propriety of renominating him
may very properly be considered by the re-
publicans of the state; and in the event
that they should consider that It would pro-
mote the best interests of the party and OF
the commonwealth to renominate and re-
elect him, we feel perfectly well assured
that he would readily accept the leadership
of the party in the next campaign. There
fore. IL the republicans of Ohio should
take this matter into their own hands and
decide to give the governor denomination
as ar honor and reward that he has fairly
earned, we do not believe that he would
feel at liberty to decline it.
In connection with this, we print the fol-
lowing significant paragraph from the Day.
ton Journal:
General John Beatty is named to succeed
Governor Foraker il the latter declines 9
denomination. So 1t seems that the story
that Governor Foraker's declination would
mean the nomination of General Bushnell
is already discounted. But fellow citizens
Foraker will be re-nominated and reelected
all the same, mem. con.
We may add to this the statement that
although General Bushnell would make
splendid candidate and a capital governor
we know that he does not desire the honor
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04
SPRINGFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Publishers and Proprietors.

THE EVENING REPUBLIC is published
every evening except Sunday, and ts dellv-
erred at the rate OF 10c. per week. singie
copies Dc.
rBg WEEKLY REPUBLIC is published
every Thursday. and IL one OF the most com
plete family newspapers In the country
eight pages, markets complete. hepiete
with news and miscellany. 81 per year'
invariably cash In advance.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

An communications and contributions
ahould be addressed to CLIFTON NJ. NICHOLS,
editor. and all business letters to THOMAS u.
Bnows, manager,
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04
.ero, in that very familiar oration,

have all, no doubt, applied to
bject the famous remark OF
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-04

How He Felt and What He Thought
while Falling Into the UNKNOWN
Hereafter''-A Curious Experience-An
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
Yours truly,
The Penltentiary Ante Bellum.

Some one has mailed us-for
what purpose we know not-a
copy of the Report of the OFF,
GERS Of the Mississippi Penitentia-
ry for 1862" 1t is pamphlet of
sixteen pages and bears the i'm.
print of Palmer & Pickett, State
Printers. The officers were d.
Shelton, j. Il. Ledbetter, A. Pat.
rick, Inspectors; Fleming L, Swan
superintendent; j. NJ. ChiIds,
Clerk A. B. Cabanis, Physician
A. Pomroy, Chaplain; W. G. Har.
rell. Sergeant of the Guard. There
were so convicts-all white..-em.
ployed as follows IN manufactu-
ing department, 90; blacksmith, 2;
wagons, chairs and other wood
work, O.; milling, il cutting and
hauling wood, 6 shoe.making, 2 /,
sewing and repairing clothes, !
cooking, washing, ETC., 6. The In
spectors reported the Institution
in prosperous condition; The
Superintendent reported q profit
on the year Of s6,5S562, aud cash
balance in his hands of $16,377.11.
The Chaplain complained that The
prison hall felt like an Ice house,
and that he could not, in conse-
quence, resume his classes until
the propitiously approaching
athcr.,-Clarlon.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
GOOdCrOps, Etc.
wnmOt Station. August 0

WilmOt Station, August 9th.
EDITOR dREESvILLE TDrEs
Please allow sold Stuck in the
mud.n small space for a little
item. The corn crop ofDeer Greek
is made, and ready for the crib. and
1t is the best that has been made in
twenty years in quality and quan.
tity. There should be thousands of
bushels for sale another year pro-
perly stored and cared for. The cot
ton crop has improved right along
and at this date is better on Deer
Greek than it has been for twenty
years; bus the present crop is
extra, so say our old gray haired
planters. Cotton in our neighbor-
hood is opening ready for the
plckers; "Stick in the mudr is
we'll pleased with the candidates
for county officers and hopes they
will all be elected, more or less.
We are having great many cases
of slow fever on the creek, caused
by the filth that has accumulated
in the channel of the creek. The
Public must remember that in
Washington county there is a
house for every four hundred
yards on both sides of the creek,
and at each house there is a stable
and hog pen just under the bank;
so that all the filth, from the house
stable and hog pen, is all washed
down into the creek by every rain
that falls. And again just under
the bank in the thick bushes is a
common priyy for thousands of
people, and this filth all goes into
the creek by the heavy rains. And
besides this source of filth, there
are forty or fifty stores and oil
the filth that accumulates about
these places is thrown down the
bank and finally goes into the
channel and water of the creek.
And now do you wonder that we
have some fevers up and down
the creek ? | think the Deer
Greek country is the healthiest IN
the world, when we take into con
sideration the carelessness of the
people that live in it.
think Mr.. Jefferson Davis
head is about level on the prohi.
bition question. | believe all the
old confederates would like to
take a drink when they call for 1t
without being prohibited from do
ing so. j. ID. HOPPER.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
A sword Fish.

The four foot Anoser Of a sword.
fish driven through sixteen inches
of stout Norwegian pine and PEN
etrating ten inches into the cargo
ofa sugar-laden bark, was one of
the nautical euriosities presented
to a wondering throng of sailors
and landsmen at the wharves of
the Z. q. knight sugar refinery
in this city yesterday, says the
Philadelphia Record. The vessel
through the hull of which this sea
monsters weapon had penetrated
is the bark 0rnen, which came to
this pdri from Santos, Brazil, by
way of the Barbados. The bark
is stanehly built Norwegian craft,
and the planks in her hull are even
harder than American oak. while
her cargo of sugar was being un.
loaded at the refinery wharf q
long black object, like the point Of
an enormous bayonet, was discov.
cred thrust ten inches into one of
the hogshead of sugar, so firmly
impaling it that some difficulty
was experienced in getting the
hogshead from the vessels bottom.
The end Of the sword looked like
large marlin spike, and all at.
tempts to dislodge it were fruitlsss.
A close examination, however
proved that the object was the
"sword' ofa sword fish which had
been driven through the planking
of the bark's hull. The point ol
the ''sword" which projected into
the vessels hold was as hard as
flint. The only weapon which
made any impression upon it was
an ak. with which the end was fin
ally broken of and taken on deck,
whore II was exhibited to tn,
sailors and the stevedores.
From the accounts of the crew
and the bark's officers II SEEM
that the fish must have struck tn,
vessel near the region of the equa
torlal calm. The mate says tina
while the bark was moving alonI
very slowly, scarcely a ripple die
turbing the surface Of the ocean
one calm day in May, terrifh
shock was experinced which q
most threw the vessel aback an
hurled some of the crew OF thei
feet. The incident caused cor
siderable excitement on board, an
it was feared that o hidden roc
had been struck until the captai
looked over the starboard qual
ter, whence the shock appeared t
have come, and saw an enormou
fish disappearing beneath th
waves. Until the "sword" wa
discovered yesterday II was SUI
posed that the bark had struck
dead or sleeping whale.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20

The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias met in vlcksburg July
IL, and transacted business Of
vast importance to the lodges of
Miss.
"The Brothe rhood "of Natchez
gives the proceedings in full, from
which we take the following:
Whereas, Sir Knight j. d.
Webster, ex Grand Chancellor of
the Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias for the State of Miss.
issippi, has in his hands forty.fve
[ 45 00) dollars of the Grand
Lodge money, and
Whereas, said j. ID. Webster
has emphatically denied having any
money belonging to the Grand
Lodge, and wilfully, and malicious
ly refused to pay said amount, and
has withdrawn his support and
Influence from the order by bis
continuous absence, Therefore
be 1t Resolved, that the said j. ID.
Webster be allowed thirty five
( 80 days Ia which to settle the
said amount with the supreme
Chancellor, and IN case he refuse
a. neglect to pay said vmount
within the thirty five days, be
,thero aud then suspended until
The siifin1 Of the next Grand
.s<udno. I,oH sie 6a6e wa %
finally settled n--- Busy Bee.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
An Important DecIsIon.
Ths Validity Of Contracts in . Certain Glass
d heasy Laana.


Washington, August 13.-Hon.
Emory Spear, presiding in the Uni.
ted States Circuit Court for the
southern district of Georgia, to-
day rendered a decision in the
case of Sherwood VS.. Rountree, in
volving the validity of the con.
tracts 0fmoney loans on land made
by loan companies. He held that
the practice of these companies OF
Withholding from l5 to 20 per cent
of the amount loaned under the
device of commissions for negoti.
ating the loan is usurious aud lille.
gal, and that where the money lend.
er who dealt through the loan com.
panies was shown to have carried
on a settled business where these
exorbitant and extravagant rates,
in addition to regular interest,
were charged, he was presumed to
understand the nature Of the con.
tracts the loan companies were
making; and that in the absence Of
satisfactory proof to rebut this
presumption he could recover only
the amount received by the Dor.
rover, and the legal interest and
not the commissions which are in.
cluded in the amount stated in the
note or mortgage.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
Wake Snakes.

Especial Dispatch to the Avalanche,
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 13.-"Dr."
Mcdonald, claiming to be q snake
charmer from Michigan, tried his
magic upon a serpent of the vipe'
rous kind at Lawrenceburg Friday.
He offered ten dollars for the lar.
gest and most poisonous of fsnakes.
A man went into the wild swamps
of Lawrence and captured what
looked to be the king Of American
poison.
His snakesbip was forty.nine
inches long and had eighteen rat
ties, with horny cells fall of poison.
The snake was turned over to Nc.
Donald, who took on about pint
of alcohol, opened a box and
caught the snake just back of the
head with his right hand, when he
buried his poisonous fangs into the
DOCTORS hand between the thumb
and foreiinger.
Quite a crowd had gathered
upon the scene, who nearly all
scampered away when DR.. Melon.
aid dropped the snake, put he
picked it up again and put the head
of the reptile In his mouth, after
coiling it around his neck. The
snake seemed to be as mad as o
hornet, and no sooner the box lid
was knocked off with Ratchet,
thon he leaped out of the box.
Some of the bravest of the audi.
ence succeeded in killing it after
the bitten man threw it down,
Medical aid was called in. Nc.
Donald is said to be in DANCE
rous condition, the poison being
so fatal to mankind, having infec.
ted his entire system. 1t is said
that his system is so infected that
grave apprehensions are entertain.
ed of bis recovery. He grew dead
ly sick after he was bitten and has
been having hemorrhage of the
lungs since.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
A Common DelnsIon.

The assumption of the law that
the knowledge of certainty OF
speedy death imposes upon one
the obligation to speak the truth,
and thus give weighty Importance
to a dying declaration,' has expert.
enced rude shock In the case uf
Mrs Kegel, who, while expiring,
related under the injunction that
she was dying that one Hall had
beaten her with a. hatchet. The
fact was undenIably established
that her husband had beaten her,
that she knew it, and that Hal
waa n mile or more distant at the
time she received the wounds
That woman was at least faithful
to her faithless partner even IL
death, and entirely careless of ths
injury she was iniIicting upon Al
innocent persen BY dying With !
l.o apol. I.eI .,rs.--5arfamento 10
cord unlon Ang 8.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20

New York, Aug. l1.-A Wash
ington special to the Herald says
II Mr.. Michael L. Woods Of Ala
bama, Is to be believed, President
Cleveland has virtually decided
upon the appointment of a success
sor to ex.Justice Woods of the
United States supreme court. The
fortunate man, according to Mr..
Woods, is Judge Edward W. Pet
tus of Alabama.
In the course of an interview
Mr.. Woods said: II know that
the president sent for Judge Pet.
tus, and 1t was to consult him
about the appointment. Senator
George was prominently mention
ed at one time, but Secretary La
mar appeared on the scene and
George dropped out of sight. But
Lamar will not be appointed. You
can say without fear of contradic
ton that the president considers
Lamar his chief counsellor and on
that account he will not give him
up. l am of the opinion that
Judge Pettus will receive the ap
pointment, and he is man who
will be a credit to the state and
bench and prove once more Presi'
dent Cleveland's good judgement
in the matter of selections for re
sponsible positions"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
SAMUEL HARRIS.

Dlstrlct OF Washington county, DO recommend
that your Honorable body grant unto
SAMUEL HARRIS.
license TO Retail vinuous and spirtuous liquors
OF his store on Betsy plantation In said County
and District, his being resident OF said Dist
rict, OF good reputation, sober and suitable per-
son to conduct such business:
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-20
CLAY HILL PORTRAIT.

The Clay.Hill portrait of Mr..
John Randolph, said to be the
finest likeness Of him, is now In
the Concoran gallery at Washing.
ton, says j. B. Tabb in the Inde.
pendent.
Long after Mrs. Tabb's death
Mr.. Randolph still came to Clay.
Hill. He was there one day at o
dinner party given to young
army officer. At the table the
military guest was giving glowing
account of the Mexican churches,
some Of the finest of which, he
said, had been turned into barracks
by the United States troops
"Wby, Captain were you not
afraid to do it p asked onesof the
ladies. "Oh, no; for my part" tho
captain replied, 81 have become so
used to such things that | could
take my dinner on an altar as CON-
fortably as elsewhere"
"And so would hog, sir" said
Mr.. Randolph.
In the silence that followed this
terrible thrust, they say tho very
air of the room seemed to tingle
as the nerves of the guests did.
At that time, and even at much
later day, there was in the neigh
borhood no regular clergyman of
the Episcopal Church. Sometimes
only once in three or four years
would a parson appear, and then
it was that the weddings took
place, and that all the children
born in the interval were brought
to baptized. This last, as a matter
of courtesy to the pastor, was
of strict obligation. DR.. Archer's
youngest son was quite old enough
to have some notion of the import
of the rite when his turn came, and
ojecting to the ordinance, he tried
to run away. When his father
caught him the little fellow yelled:
81 don't want to be baptized"
"Why not, my son I" inquired
tue old doctor.
"'Oause | can't cuss no more,'
sobbed the little boy piteously.
"You shall cuss just as much az
you please, my SON. said the old
man. tenderly. "Come along, let
'em baptize you, my child" The
privilege of "cusslng" secured tC
to him by this strange dispensa
tion, tho little fellow made no fur
ther resistance, but submitted tt
the rite.
| ORA Archer was lifeloag partl
san of his illustrious brother.in.law
Gov. Giles, one of the ablest poll